WT Society Makes Light of Child Abuse Crimes by Portraying them as Cartoons

by flipper in

i commented on this on another thread- but i believe this has enough importance to create a thread about this situation in and of itself.

at the current district convention as you know the wt society released a " sophie & caleb " video allegedly warning parents about the dangers of child abuse.

they don't really use the words " child abuse " in the video - but just say if " someone tries to touch you in a manner you aren't comfortable with " and portray it as a cartoon !

wifibandit

Just the cartoon: https://youtu.be/K4fnrUY-waI

For those who dare watch, a non-borg mirror: https://youtu.be/ghspcMOqgmQ

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Reliable source - new round of US Bethel layoffs coming soon

by sir82 in

jw
friends

was talking to an ex-bethelite who is still very well-connected to those in the ivory tower.. he says that there will soon be a(nother) large number of us bethelites who will be "reassigned to the field" as pioneers and special pioneers.. he did not give his source, but he is pretty reliable.

incidentally, he was "reassigned to the field" in the last big purge about 7 years ago.. i imagine those so reassigned would be pretty teed off.

let go just before the golden lakeshore palace was completed..

wifibandit

sir82 You just described me.

That was my life after high school. I wasted my early-to-mid twenties at Bethel, got kicked to the curb "sent to the field" (proved to be a blessing). Broke with no school, a crappy car and a drinking habit, I landed on my parents door steps. Back to pioneering, but this time jaded and suspecting there was something rotten in Denmark. In entrants school they had asked us to "make Bethel your life long career" and said "you are part of the family"!

They better hope they don't piss off the wrong people. They may have to deal with an "Edward Snowden" or "Bradley Manning" of their own!

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1971 Listening To The Great Teacher--PDF!

by Atlantis in

1971 listening to the great teacher--pdf!

bookmarked searchable reduced front cover?

click here: http://www.imagger.com/view/285292_scan-10001.jpg.html click the link at the bottom of the next page.

wifibandit

I don't have this one. Anyone have this PDF?

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Anthony Morris III goes on an eight minute rant over child abuse

by Richard_I in

jw
friends

this is in the july 2015 monthly program on tv.jw.org cedars wrote about it too.. starting at around 42:30 in the video, morris talks about the child abuse situation for almost 10 minutes.

link to video.

i'm writing a transcript right now.

wifibandit

https://youtu.be/ghspcMOqgmQ?t=42m30s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghspcMOqgmQ

Skip to 00:42:30

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Australian Royal Commission 2 witness live stream

by possum in

july 27th 2015 australian royal commission into institutional child abuse will be live streaming evidence from two witness victims.

you can listen on your computer live streaming from royal commission website.

wifibandit

http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/2015-06/public-hearing-into-the-jehovah%E2%80%99s-witnesses

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Asamblea Regional 2015

by wifibandit in

for the spanish speaking: .

https://youtu.be/hwym3x_cuvy?list=plrw9u-n1z2m_zcto4vkw6ay4xyougmvhl.

wifibandit

К сожалению, мой друг Мелхиседека.

I do not have the login. If some one gives me the files or the login, I'll do the rest!

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Request For Information: 1935 trial of Paul Balzereit

by Saintbertholdt in

has anyone ever come across the court transcript of the trial of paul balzereit by the nazi state in december 1935 in halle?.

or has anyone come across the 1936 german yearbook article discussing the matter?.

the transcript incensed rutherford which resulted in balzereit being publicly disfellowshipped.. the watchtower corporation seems to have kept a transcript because they quoted out of it in the 1974 yearbook.. anyway below is what rutherford wrote in an open letter to the german witnesses in 1936 (as you probably already know):.

wifibandit

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Balzereit

Paul Balzereit
Paul Johannes Gerhard Balzereit , pseudonyms Paul Gehrhard and PBGotthilf (* 2 November 1885 in Kiel ; † 6 July 1959 in Magdeburg ) was a German journalist and as a "branch servant" (Country Director) of the Watchtower Society an important figure in the history of confrontation Jehovah's Witnesses with Nazism .
Born in 1885 Balzereit attended elementary school and completed a business education. After several years working in this profession, he joined the Jehovah's Witnesses to. 1916 transitional editor of the Watchtower , he advanced to 1923 for managers of newly established Golden Age , the German edition of the US Witness publication The Golden Age . In 1925, he was reported for an anti-clerical pamphlet, but acquitted in the following process. Even after the ban of the religious community in 1933 Balzereit allowed the publishing operation initially continue, albeit limited. He sat down for a withdrawal of the ban on Jehovah's Witnesses, became Increasingly criticized for its ready to compromise line. On May 10, 1935 Balzereit was arrested and in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp internment. 1936 Balzereit was the Jehovah's Witnesses of the disfellowshipped . Balzereit went to the prison time for his part at a distance from Jehovah's Witnesses. After the war, he served as head of the association of freestanding Christians , with the support of the Ministry for State Security against the Jehovah's Witnesses of DDR agitated.

http://www.neuegeschichte.de/aufsaetze/ehemalige-zeugen-jehovas-im-dienste-des-mfs-der-fall-balzereit

http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/mbl/Biografien/0845.htm

Before and after the Nazi ban on Jehovah's Witnesses from 24.06.1933 (Prussia), B. tried in vain to the authorities, the first of the production "harmless writings" (calendars and Bibles) granted to him, over the non-political, purely religious character of IBV enlighten. Especially after 1934 tended as to compromise that did not accept the Brooklyn line so that it distanced itself from the meanwhile on 05/10/1935 arrested and judged in court in October before the Special Court Hall B.. At the Lucerne Congress (04.-07.09.1936) sat Watchtower president Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869-1942) Erich Frost as the new country manager. In Sachsenhausen concentration camp as renounced his faith and went after 1945 own way (establishing the general Bible Training Association; in 1958 renamed Association freestanding Christians, with the support of the Ministry of State Security against the IBV ,Jehovah now witnesses, acted). While B. was a respected speaker before 1933, he is now almost unknown among Jehovah's Witnesses.

The 1974 Yearbook mentions him quite a bit. pg. 88, 97, 98, 100, 109, 110, 148-150.

pg 150

After serving his term in prison Balzereit was put in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was forced to play an extremely inglorious role. He had signed the declaration abdicating association with the brothers and avoided all contact with them. Because of his conduct he was released about a year later, but meanwhile he was forced to put up with many a humiliation, for, basically, the SS hated traitors too. It was the SS themselves who gave him the name "Beelzebub," and once an SS man required him to stand in front of all his brothers - there wee some 300 in the camp at the time - and repeat his signed declaration abdicating association with Jehovah's witnesses, and this he did!
In 1946, by which time Balzereit had become a violent opposer of the truth, he wrote a letter to reparations authorities revealing the hostile attitude that he had even before the trial was held. Thus ended a dark chapter in the history of God's people in Germany, the first lines of which had already been written in the 1920's.

He is also discussed in: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution

By M. James Penton

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Headed to the RC

by StarTrekAngel in

jw mode - on.

wifibandit

Could you PM me the stats, so I can add it to my list?:

2015 Convention Location/Dates/Attendance/Baptized

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WT October 15, 2015 - Don't believe Apostate Lies

by Designer Stubble in

the last article in this new wt, shows me that the organization is dealing with much information that is damaging them.

i am sure that the many recent lawsuits are being noticed by the r&f.. here are some gems from that article, titled the naive person believes every word.

we must be very selective about what we consider worthy of our attention.

wifibandit

@just fine Internet sources? Like these?

"Jehovah's witnesses do not argue that blood transfusions have not kept alive patients who otherwise might have died." Blood, Medicine and The Law of God p.38

"In former times thousands of youths died for putting God first. They are still doing it, only today the drama is played out in hospitals and courtrooms, with blood transfusions the issue." Awake! 1994 May 22 p.2

Because I remember getting this at the Kingdom Hall. Printed on cheap paper.

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Crisis Of Conscience In Audio Format?

by dubstepped in

i'm just wondering if the book is available to be listened to in any format?

i know that it can be found online and read freely, and i've been through some of it, but i just wondered if it was available in any other way.

i guess it would be lacking some of the copies of articles and such that were in the original book, but it would still be interesting.

wifibandit

Thank you so much for this great work!

wifibandit

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He is also discussed in: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution